Aileen-Marie Scott of DOGFIGHT at Camarillo Skyway Playhouse
Director Aileen-Marie Scott discusses directing techniques and the 2012 Off-Broadway musical, 'Dogfight,' about a special relationship that develops on the eve of the Vietnam War.
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Director Aileen-Marie Scott discusses directing techniques and the 2012 Off-Broadway musical, 'Dogfight,' about a special relationship that develops on the eve of the Vietnam War.
Last month I went to a private showcase of music from the musical Hamilton.
There are three new events being unveiled at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center Thursday evening: Lit Live, a new local production company, And Lightning Struck, a new play written by the eminent local actor and producer Robert Weibezahl, and a new director, 21-year-old Austin Robert Miller.
Siena Avila is like many other 16-year-old high schoolers you know.
Louis Baker has had a varied career in the entertainment world.
The musical Ragtime, which plays through this Sunday, December 4, at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, is an important work that weaves actual historical personages into the fabric of its three intersecting stories: an upper-class white family, the African American ragtime pianist Coalhouse…
The idea of a woman playing the lead in Shakespeare's Hamlet is not a new one.
Everyone knows that the director is the person responsible for the look and content of a musical or play, but once the cast has been selected, sets and props are delivered, and all the technical elements are in place, who puts it all together? The week prior to a show's opening is called 'Tech…
Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark but, in Los Angeles, Shakespeare lovers will find all the joy that they can wish when the Library Foundation of Los Angeles opens its newest exhibit: American's Shakespeare: The Bard Goes West on November 17 at the Central Library.
If you have the opportunity to see Cabrillo Music Theatre's splendid production of Evita this weekend, you will no doubt be drawn to the electrifying performances by its stars, Cassandra Murphy, as Eva Peron, and Marc Ginsburg, as Che (profiled in our October 4 story - http://vconstage.
For years I have been saying that the best kept secret in Ventura County theater is the Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company.
In Cabrillo Music Theatre's new production of Evita, the role of Che, the narrator figure based on Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, is played by Marc Baron Ginsburg.
His day job is as associate justice of the Second District, Division Six of the California Courts of Appeal, but Steve Perren's passion for the stage has seen him appear in a variety of shows in Ventura County over the years.
Occasionally we venture out of the sanctity of Ventura County to see how some of our locally raised theatricians are faring in their acting careers.
Today we meet Katherine Bottoms, a young actress who we hope you will be able to see on stage some day before fame and fortune takes her away from us.
One important and valuable aspect of Cabrillo Music Theatre's long tenure in Ventura County is its devotion to casting talented young local performers in as many of its productions as it can.
Larry Raben is an accomplished actor and director who has added his prodigious abilities to a multitude of productions around the world.
For the past seven years, composer Christopher Hoag has conjured up battle scenes, storms, romance, and adventure with his music for Kingsmen Shakespeare Company's annual summer festival.
In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about community and family in a Dominican-American neighborhood in New York City, has a multi-layered meaning for its talented cast.
Playing a character is hard enough for many actors and actresses who are starting out in musical theater, but The Drowsy Chaperone throws its performers a curve because of the complicated nature of the show.
Last night's opening of Cabrillo Music Theatre's Children of Eden was every bit as enchanting and magical as anticipated.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was originally a short story penned in 1953 by Dorothy M.
It's not often when a person is able to develop their own stage show about their idol, but for the past four years, actor/singer Scott Dreier has done that very thing, when, in 2011, he started paying tribute to former actress/singer Doris Day.
I haven't posted a story yet this year because I've been busy.
December 12 marks the centennial of Frank Sinatra's birth, which makes the arrival of Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Christmas, which plays for one performance this Saturday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, all the more special.
Like many Ventura County performers, Autumn Bodily has a long career in local theater.
One of the most talented musicians to join the Ventura County musical theater scene in the past few years has been Cassie Nickols.
For an actor, Renee Marino has lived a charmed life.
On October 2, Camarillo Skyway Playhouse debuts its production of Nine.
Nicole Parker stars opposite Justin Kirk in the west coast premiere of THESE PAPER BULLETS! A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at Geffen Playhouse this month.
Idina Menzel will perform in Toronto this Wednesday at the Sony Centre as part of her 2015 world tour.
Beginning this Saturday, the Elite Theatre Company's South Stage will be presenting Zero Hour, a one-man play about legendary actor Zero Mostel.
An interview with choreographer John Charron, who is working on the upcoming Cabrillo Music Theatre production of 'Oklahoma!'
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Beetlejuice JR Conejo Players Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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5 Star Theatricals presents Les Miserables Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (10/09-10/18) |
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Mötley Crüe at Shoreline Amphitheatre Shoreline Amphitheatre (9/24-9/24) |
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GFour Productions presents Menopause the Musical® Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (9/30-9/30) |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Conejo Players Theatre (11/06-11/29) |